Monday, January 30, 2012

Mahendra Singh on The The!

There's a new Poetry Comics installment up on The The, featuring Mahendra Singh!

The Stag Upon the Vine(V; 15)

A hunted Stag concealed in vines,in this verdant tropic havocgrown riotous thick by fecund lucktill hounds and men lose heart, resignsthe chase and he’s free againto devour the vine, all decency defytill they hear him, hounds and menthey return and set on him to diea just punishment, he now knows too lateforget me, he cries, yet remember my fatethen falls and the pack falls upon himstoic he dies while huntsmen join inforsake gratitude for greed, the egotist’s whim:betray thy saviour and revel in thy sin